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When was Luis Alberto Urrea born?
August 20, 1955 (age 66 years)
Luis Alberto Urrea/Date of birth
What is one thing you found surprising about how Urrea characterizes the Wellton Border Patrol agents?
Urrea tells us that the Border Patrol agents at Wellton Station are often military men. they are spit-and-polish. Their trucks are clean and new; their uniforms are sharp; and their offices are busy but generally squared away.
What does Luis Alberto Urrea write about?
Hailed by NPR as a “literary badass” and a “master storyteller with a rock and roll heart,” Luis Alberto Urrea is a prolific and acclaimed writer who uses his dual-culture life experiences to explore greater themes of love, loss and triumph.
Where does Luis Alberto Urrea teach?
Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
How did Luis Urrea call his book across the wire in the preface?
In the “Preface” to his book across the wire, Luis Alberto Urrea reports the lives of people living in and around Tijuana and the border between Mexico and California. He calls Mexicans as “huddled masses” who are conspicuously allowed to enter into USA, an illegal journey ‘across the wire’.
What is the water museum about?
When Urrea revisits the characters in the gorgeous “Welcome to the Water Museum,” which deals with the effects of a drought on a working-class family, it makes the first story even more powerful. Urrea has always been an extremely gifted writer, but these two stories feel something like a revelation.
What is the theme of the Water Museum?
‘The Water Museum,’ Luis Alberto Urrea’s collection of stories, investigates the failure of borders to keep cultures apart. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an American mother, Luis Alberto Urrea knows about borders.
Is Luis a girl name?
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name Hludowig or Chlodovech….Luis.
| Gender | Male |
| Language(s) | Spanish, Portuguese (Luís), Galician |
| Other gender | |
|---|---|
| Feminine | Luisa |
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